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lynch law

noun as in punishment by hanging without due process

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It was the eighth day after the fearful application of Lynch Law we have just described, a little before sunset.

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A great deal has been said and written lately about feuds and lynch-law in the districts around the lower Mississippi.

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For such offences there is no law to reach a slave but lynch law.

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Well have lynch-law here in just about ten minutes, if you aint spry.

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To suppress these desperadoes, in the absence of strong legal institutions, resort was continually made to lynch law.

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